Niko Pirosmani

Niko Pirosmani, birth name Nikoloz Pirosmanashvili (Georgian ნიკო ფიროსმანი; native ნიკოლოზ ასლანის ძე ფიროსმანაშვილი / Nikoloz Aslanis dse Pirosmanashvili, * 1862 in Mirsaani, Georgia, † April 9, 1918 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian painter. The self-taught artist painted scenes from the Georgian folk life. Only after his death was his naive art international recognition.

Life

His exact birth date is unknown. He was the youngest of three children in a peasant family kakhetian. The family owned a small vineyard, some cows and oxen. After the death of his father in 1870 and soon after, his mother brought him his sister to Tbilisi. In 1872, he appeared as a domestic help in the services of wealthy families, learned Georgian and Russian to read and write, taught himself to paint with.

In 1890, he worked as a conductor at the Georgian Railway, opened three years later with a partner, a milk shop in Tbilisi.

Around 1901 he left the company, lived homeless in the station district of Tbilisi. His livelihood, he played with the painting of pubs signs and odd jobs. He exchanged his paintings in the dives against eating, drinking and a warm place to spend the night.

Pirosmani died on 9 April 1918, malnutrition and liver failure. Previously, he had lain sick for three days and helpless in a basement. He was buried in the St. Nino cemetery. The exact location of the tomb is absent registration unknown.

Services

Pirosmani painted in a naive style country people at work, at parties, in the hunt and with their children. It created portraits of historical figures, prostitutes, still life, painting by Georgian landscapes and animals. Colors and animals expressed for him sentiments and virtues. Depending on the financial situation he painted in oil on canvas, cardboard or iron plates. One of the most famous paintings is The actress Margherita. It was the French singer Margot de Sevres, who loved Pirosmani and showered with flowers.

In 1912 he was discovered by the Russian Futurists Ilya and Cyril Zdanevič and Mikhail Le - Dantju. On an exhibition of naive art in Moscow in January 1913 four of his paintings were first introduced to the public. The Georgian newspaper Temi reported about him.

In 1916 he was invited at the initiative of the art collector Dito Shevardnadze to society of Fine Arts in Tbilisi. In the same year, the brothers Cyril and Ilya Zdanevič organized in the home of her parents in Tbilisi with an overall view of the works Pirosmani.

Posthumous Findings

Her international breakthrough came learned the art Pirosmani until after his death. Art historians, he is next to the French painter Henri Rousseau today as the most important exponent of naive painting. 1972 Pablo Picasso drew a portrait of his Georgian colleagues for a book publication. Of the UNESCO decision to declare 1996 the year Pirosmani.

The majority of his paintings hangs in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi. Among the paintings carousal, The actress Margherita and childless rich man and poor man with many children.

The city of Tbilisi has built him in 1975 in a green area at the Gorgassalistraße a monument.

The Stuttgart Theatre at the thread in 2009 dedicated Pirosmani a play with characters from his paintings.

Niko Pirosmani's portrait is depicted on the front of the current Georgian 1 lari banknote; the back is adorned with a painted by him in 1913 deer.